Nba Quotes - Page 5

• The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Team, Believe

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• Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Giving, Coaching

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Being Strong, Practice

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, School

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• The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.com.

  Mark Cuban

  Funny, Espn, Towns

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• We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Moving, Cutting

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• That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

  John Starks

  Basketball, Dream, Levels

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• The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Thinking, Example

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• The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Careers, Bigs

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• Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, … Driven From Within.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Thinking, Mind

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• The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Night, Play

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• It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.

  Stephen Curry

  Christian, Games, Play

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• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, People, Asia

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• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Games, Yellow

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• I really don't like talking about diets.

  Bess Myerson

  Talking, Boston Celtics, Diets

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• This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Land

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• When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

  Russell Crowe

  Kids, Parent, Littles

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• But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sex, Numbers

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• So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Player, Perspective

  Inside Hoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, White, Guy

  "Bird: NBA 'a black man's game'". www.espn.com. June 10, 2004.

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• Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

  Bo Ryan

  Basketball, People, Fake

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• I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Jordan

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• I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Basketball, Dog

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• I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

  Bill Cartwright

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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